Top 5 Random and Obscure IMDb Pages
If you ever browse aimlessly through IMDb, you might have found yourself asking, “somebody cared enough to make a page for that?” In its goal to be a comprehensive and authoritative resource for information about movies and TV, the site has become known for allowing just about any video to have a page. This is a radical approach as film and television is both typically seen as art forms that can only be made with lots of training, money, and connections to the establishment.
Considering this, it’s gutsy and rare for a website ranked as high as 66th in the world to have such a democratic approach, but IMDb still rakes in $200–500 million a year. Sometimes the videos listed are so insignificant that it becomes surprising that someone would care enough to make an IMDb page for them. Here are some examples that show IMDb will showcase just about anything, along with DALL-E 2’s interpretations of their titles.
5. Ellie Goulding: Healthy Eating on Tour
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4130296/?ref_=kw_li_tt
Even though this definitely fits the criteria of “random and obscure,” I wouldn’t say I’m surprised this has an IMDb page, considering that Ellie Goulding has a lot of fans. Yet this video is likely the most obscure thing she’s ever done. It tests the contributors of Goulding’s IMDb profile to make sure they truly have listed her entire filmography.
4. Decimal Five
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0989178/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5
This series of animated short films from 1971 was designed to demonstrate to British audiences the then-new decimal currency system. Here’s one of the entries in the series:
3. DT Spain Photoshoot
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15120348/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
I always forget that photoshoot videos are a thing that exists, despite having (probably) seen at least some before. It would be interesting to ask people on the street to name all the forms of video that come to mind for them. Would any of them mention “photoshoots?” This one’s a topless photoshoot starring Transformers 3-star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
2. Black Knight Into Space
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12345616/?ref_=kw_li_tt
Think about how forgettable most 45-second news videos are, especially ones that are designed to be played before movies. Well, this newsreel is 65 years old, and is somehow still preserved and listed on IMDb! It depicts a rocket launch.
- Toad and Bombardier Beetle
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15803238/?ref_=kw_li_tt
Not only is it weird for this video to have an IMDb page, but I can’t even figure out the purpose of the video! It’s just a video of a beetle running in circles around a toad. The movement of the two animals is restricted to a small space, probably in a glass container, so there’s no action or anything. Twice the beetle lands in the toad’s mouth, but it gets spat out. Whenever this happens, there will be a slow-motion replay of it. There’s no narration either, but it’s not like the narrator would have anything to say about the toad and beetle. This video is completely bereft of any informational value, entertainment, or creativity. Zero stars.
This article was originally published to Medium on June 15, 2023 (https://medium.com/illumination/top-5-most-random-obscure-imdb-pages-33e7dfc486d5).